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Things Not Generally Known: Coventry

Sent to Coventry. This comes from a peculiar law of the town of Coventry, which deprived the privileges of the trades to all but a prescribed class. Workmen not within this law were treated as nonentities-practically ostracized. Seven Champions of Christendom. St. George, the patron saint of England; St. Denis, of France; St. James, of Spain; St. Anthony, of Italy; St. Andrew, of Scotland; St. Patrick, of Ireland; and St. David, of Wales. They are often alluded to by old writers. Seven Wonders of the World. A name given to seven very remarkable objects of the ancient world, which have been variously enumerated. The following classification is the one most generally received:-1 The Pyramids of Egypt. The Pharos of Alexandria. 3. The walls and hanging gardens of Babylon. 4. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus. 5. The statue of Jupiter by Phidias, at Olympia. 6. The Mausoleum, erected by Artemisia, at Halicarnassus. 7. The Colossus of Rhodes.

Seven Years' War. A war carried on by two alliances, headed respectively by Austria and Prussia, which commenced in 1756, and was brought to a closewithout material advantages gained by any party-by the peace of Hubertsburg, November 15, 1763. It is remarkable for the extraordinary campaigns of Frederick the Great, the Prussian king.